The deputy prime minister’s chauffeur: just like his boss
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November 13, 2014 at 7:40am
Here’s the deputy prime minister’s chauffeur (NB in case you’ve forgotten due to his invisibility: the deputy PM is Louis Grech) fast asleep in the driving-seat of the PM’s official car, parked on the double-yellow line outside the Office of the Prime Minister yesterday.
Like boss, like chauffeur: too lazy for words.
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And when this driver is not sleeping in the car, he regularly spends quite some time “ghand tal-pastizzi” in Kalkara. Are these the kind of people that we are paying our taxes for?
Yes unfortunately, Alf.
According to Newsfeed, the chauffeur did not even bother turning off the engine while he was napping.
Of course not – otherwise the car’s air-conditioning wouldn’t function.
Did you expect the man to bake during his siesta?
That’s because that way the a/c would remain on.
And that’s because no policeman told him to turn the engine off — because we have a very environmentally minded government.
According to Newsfeed, the engine was on the whole while, with the air-conditioner running – at taxpayers’ expense.
It runs in the family.
What an unfortunate choice of verb.
Funny how everyone is told to car pool or use public transport but it is deemed fit that our taxes pay for drivers to wait around for hours, sleep in plain view, illegally parking on yellow lines disrupting traffic and spoiling the view of historic buildings.
Is it possible that these people feel comfortable asking everyone else to change their ways but do not realize that porcine behaviour must be tackled from the top?
I do here unreservedly apologise to the pigs.
Spot on Lola..My thoughts exactly.
This is nothing new.
The engine of a Eur100,000 BMW belonging to the Malta government and used by a top-ranking politician was flown to the manufacturers’ laboratories in Germany because it kept breaking down.
The verdict by the BMW engineers was that the car was kept stationary for several hours on end and repeatedly with the engine running and the a/c on.
It was never intended to be used this way and they had never seen this happening before.
Maltese drivers like to keep cool.
Ahjar joqghod attent Joey ghax ifottulu l-magna tal-Alfa.
Tahseb li se jhallas hu?
Oh come on….. Give the man a break. He must have the most boring job in the world. Driving a deputy prime minister who does nothing.
At around 7.45am today, a silver BMW (CBX 927), accompanied by a police outrider with horn blaring to clear any traffic, sped down Alamein Road, Pembroke.
The plates show that it is not a ministerial or diplomatic corps car.
It looked to me just like any other privately owned vehicle, except for the outrider and the urgency with which it flew past, breaking any applicable speed limits and showing significant disregard to public safety.
Hang on a minute. You mention this is the PM’s official car… didn’t he relinquish that car when he was elected and decided to rent his own car back to the government?
I stupidly assumed that this (official) car would have been sold as he no longer needed it.
[Daphne – DEPUTY prime minister.]
If the deputy prime minister is GM4 who exactly are GM1, GM2 and GM3?
I always thought there was some sort of hierarchy on the issue of GM number plates or has that been obliterated together with the oligarchy and the road map.
GM = Genetically Modified.
Raqadlu lil Louis.
Waiting for the next miraculous apparition of the deputy PM.
Probably he worked a lot of overtime the previous night, miskin.
Probably just a coincidence but possibly not, but a couple of weeks ago there was someone looking very much like him who fell asleep in the ferry queue at Mgarr at the wheel of a car which to me looked identical to that one, except that it didn’t have GM plates.
He didn’t wake up despite all the hooting of the cars he was blocking, which had to manouevre around him to get onto the ferry. He only woke up when eventually an official from the ferry company went and banged on the car window to wake him up.
I think there may have been an invisible deputy prime minister with him in the car as the passenger seat seemed vacant.
Halluh miskin. Ghajja ma jaghmel xejn.
The apple never falls far from the tree.
X’tistenna minn haddiem mal-gvern taghna lkoll.